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I'm still licensed to practice, but my focus these days is on writing. Maybe I'll be back after COVID restrictions end. And then there's "This Sucks!
Originally designed to discuss issues related to my private practice and focus on expanding the health potential each of us has, this site has morphed into a more eclectic opportunity to air current observations, hopes, and aspirations. In the meantime I do hope you're finding "My Father's House: Remembering my Swedish-American family." It's written over my family name: Mona Gustafson. I Want to
01/26/2025
REVIEW OF WHAT THE EYES DON’T SEE, Mona Hanna-Attisha Just so you’ll know, I’m getting more reading done these days since I discovered that my body likes occasional rests on my back since I got another — this time minor — compr…
05/07/2024
LOSING AT WORDLE Seven days ago I was pushing a total of 50 wins eagerly striving for 100. Then I came across one of those words where early on I got all but the first letter leaving many possible words to choose. …
04/26/2024
monagustafsonaffinito.com A REVIEW OF IT SUCKS: I WANT TO LIVE WOULD HELP GREATLY IN EFFORTS TO GET THE WORD OUT THERE AND SELL 1T. It’s the one I put together in honor of my friend Nick Spooner who died of a brain tu…
04/07/2024
MORE THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND – WHO PAYS? From what I know of the people working to ban abortion, they are also people who believe that any costly regulation/legislation should be supported with a careful plan for payment. I think, too, th…
04/06/2024
MORE THAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND If the sanctity of newborn life is so important that women can be forced to endanger their own health and life, why isn’t there a concerted effort to be sure that the newborn result is guaranteed a…
04/03/2024
WHAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND Consider those who are so caring for the sanctity of life that they would require the protection of all possible fertilized embryos or at least those who meet a dictated timeline no matter what the…
11/09/2023
Make it easier to repurpose office buildings into affordable housing! The United States is in a housing crisis, leaving 7.3 million low-income renters nationwide without access to affordable housing, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition. This crisis disproportionately affects marginalized communities of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx renters, as well....
10/04/2023
Still working at developing a grown-up relationship to my blog and the wonderful people reading and responding. Maybe my major communication-by-blog problems have been solved. Thanks to you wonderful folks who were willing to go through so much to respond to me. I think I’ve replied to you just now on …
10/03/2023
I feel like a new kid on the block — time to grow up, I guess. Life used to be so simple. I just wrote my blog content in a word document, copied the word document, came here, logged on, clicked on “new post,” pasted it, and added some “tags&…
09/10/2023
BLACK WEALTH 101 – RED LINING Living in an information desert? Well, here’s a first lesson in understanding black wealth. Play a Monopoly game with the restriction that you are only allowed to buy Baltic Avenue and/or Mediterra…
09/09/2023
I’M A PSYCHOLOGIST – Professor, Practitioner, Author — becoming the “other.?” It occurred to me, reading recent news from Florida, that my colleagues and I are in danger of becoming the “other.” Of course it sparked memory of Niemöller’s familiar post WWII statement: First…
08/15/2023
BANNING ABORTION IS CHILD ABUSE. “I know it’s hard on a woman,” my acquaintance/friend said, “but I’m thinking of the baby who needs a chance to live.” “Funny thing,” I’m thinking. “Caring for the life of the potential baby/ child…
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